1.) we're getting married. 2.) we love each other 3.) it's society that says having a child out of wedlock is bad, not my morals.
My morals are sound. I know where I stand, I stand beside my fiancee all the way. I would have preferred we'd been married before she got pregnant, but honestly, I'm thrilled to death now anyway.
I have no moral qualms. All of my morals agree with each other, it's people like my parent poster's comments that make me think "this is one of those people who claim to love everyone and yet despise anyone who doesn't fit into his worldview".
Thank you, sir, for having something insightful and well thought out to say. I appreciate your comment, and am putting you on my "friends" list, unlike the parent poster, who is already on my "foe" list (see other comment in this thread).
I appreciate your words.
~Will
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Stupidity can spread like a plague. Unwed highschool-age mothers are flagrantly displaying their stupidity. I wouldn't want a teenage crack addict spending time with my kids either.
SCORE: +3 STUPID +2 IGNORANT. If you smoke crack, whether you're in highschool or not, it's a bad thing. I'm not saying getting pregnant in high school is good, but I am saying that I wouldn't mind my (hypothetical) 6 year old daughter hanging around a 28 year old responsible pregnant woman. Your logic is aweful.
People get pregnant. It happens. Pregnacny is a beautiful thing. My fiancee and I have a kid on the way (she's 4ish months pregnant). We're both 22, and it seems to be the thing to think that 22 is young to be having a kid. But, we love each other, and we love the kid (already, even before birth).
But, to compare this to crack is... just irresponsible at best, and damaging at worst. Pregnancy is a wonderful thing that has it's place and time. Crack has neither: it destroys lives and relationships. To be facing the pregnancy question a little early, and compare it to crack... are you suggesting that there's a proper time in one's life to smoke crack? That you'd let your kids hang out with crack addicts, as long as they're 30 and married? The longer I type, the less of a point I see in your arguement, and the more pissed off at you I am.
Telling your kids that pregnant people in high school are bad, and you shouldn't hang around them, is a terrible thing to do. Often, girls in this situation need love, appreciation, and support. To cut them off because they're diseased is just wrong on every human level I know of.
It's not possible. You can't marry someone of the same gender anymore than you can murder a dead man. The meaning of the word prevents it from happening.
From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.: MARRIAGE - NOUN: 1a. The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. b. The state of being married; wedlock. c. A common-law marriage. d. A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.
Look, the arguement is "marriage is blah, special, a sacrement, this, that, the other thing". Fine. Whatever. Call that marriage, and call equal protection for couples under the law "civil union". The arguement stands like thus: Conservative Preacher: "Gay marriage would ruin the specialness of marriage" Gays: "Fine, whatever, don't call it marriage. In the mean time, we have a loving, monomogous relationship, and your laws are costing us a lot of money that we wouldn't have to otherwise pay if we were like you". Conservative Preacher: "Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman." Gays: "Dude. Don't call it marriage if it makes you feel better. Whatever. But, whatever the civil, protected by US law equivilancy is, we'd like to have that". Conservative Preacher: "Same sexed couples cannot have children on their own, therefore they should not have be entitled to the protections of marriage." Gays: "How does the ability of two people to have children relate to their home loan interest rate? To their need to pay more taxes? To their need for more expensive health insurance (no children should mean less expensive health insurance)?"
Whatever. Every arguement I've heard against gay marriage goes back to the definition of marriage, which is defined in an anti-gay religious sense. However, somehow this has been extended to the law, and it's just stupid. There are 2 parts to a union-between-two-people. One is the part that the church, god, and your parents will recognize. The other is the one that the IRS, blue cross/blue shield, and Century21 will recognize. All that most gay people want is the 2nd part, and they're even willing to not call it marriage, opting for calling it what it really is, a "civil" (or having to do with the law) "union" (partnership of two people).
Maximum PC, Dec2003 issue, has a showdown of the Athlon64 F-51 vs. Intel P4ExtremeEdition vs. Mac dual G5 2.0ghz.
Basically, they came up with the conclusion that the P4EE, though it's very hard to find one, is a bit faster in the majority, the Athlon64 takes up almost all the rest of the field, and the Mac G5 comes in first in one or two areas. They also concluded that 1.) the mac is a good deal for a fast computer, 2.) the intel chip looks more like vaporware than anything else, as you can actually get AMD's and PPC's, and 3.) the difference in speed b/t the athlon64 and the P4EE is negligible.
Why on earth are you still running SCO, BTW? Do the machines carry some weird SW that is not found in Linux?
I have a friend (who reads slashdot, and thus may read the same comment and repost), but the computer store where he works builds custom computers for the public, businesses, gub'ment, and they do small scale ISP and repair stuff.
The CTO of the company is just in love with microsoft. Voluntarily spends thousands of dollars and hours configuring just so they can run IIS and exchange, etc. It's gotten to the point where my friend has convinced the CTO that Linux is better, and the CTO still doesn't care because he's unwilling to learn it.
The ONE thing they have non-MS is their transaction server, which is running MMS software on SCO-UNIX, and has been for a coon's age. For the longest time, the MMS people didn't support anything else. Now they support redhat 7.2, i think, and they're considering switching to that because they want to upgrade the machine (why, I don't know, as it's essentially telnet).
There are people using mission critical software under SCO.
As posted elsewhere in this thread, I know what java is and I know what javascript is. I see al lthe time banner ads and popups that load teh little "sun cup and steam" thing before trying to sell me crap.
I know java is not javascript. I am just sick of seeing little popups and crap on webpages that use Java (real java). I.e. I watched the freakin sun little "cup and steam" and a grey space load before I get something that looks like a casino or something".
I don't know why everybody wants to keep distance from Java.
Dude, because it's Java. Seriously, for word association, the first 2 things that come to mind are "bloated" and "unnecessary".
What's java's place in the world now? As far as I first understood it, Java was designed to allow for complete application portability, to any platform, etc. That was why it was so freaking bloated and ugly. As time has gone on, we've seen that, even though java continues to be bloated, it's not the least bit portable. It all depends on what you have that interprets or runs or whatever your java. All the programs are different, and nothing looks the same, feels the same, runs the same across platforms. Everyone has to put specific code in their java apps so that they will run on every platform. And still, where it the most common usage of java? Stupid web crap in banner ads and pop ups.
Fuck Java. I put java in the same category as Pascal - a language which never accomplished it's intended task, but that, despite it's horridness, has continued to exist.
Marriage is not a right, it is, at best, a tradition or custom. Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman. ...response... Customs and traditions change as society changes. Why should this one be different than any others?
An even better arguement is: If it's a tradition or custom, why does it guarantee special protections under the law? Why do married couples pay less taxes than unmarried couples? Why is it that married couples can get joint health insurance that's significantly cheaper than 2 separate policies? Why can married couples qualify for lower interest rates on house loans.
If it's tradition, let's leave the corporations and government out of it, and make it the sole realm of the churches.
Marriage is 'special'. Places that have allowed same sexed marriages have seen increased divorce and infidelity. Same sexed marriage takes away the 'specialness' of marriage. ...response... Gay sex and marriage are immoral, as are divorce and infidelity. It's no surprise that a place which has one type of immorality has another. So there may be general society problems causing both, it may not be gay marriage itself destroying values.
Gay sex is immoral? How is it any more immoral than straight couples doing it in the butt? Huh? If marriage creates morality out of immorality (ok sex where there was immoral pre-marital sex), then why deny this to gays?
Look, the arguement is "marriage is blah, special, a sacrement, this, that, the other thing". Fine. Whatever. Call that marriage, and call equal protection for couples under the law "civil union". The arguement stands like thus: Conservative Preacher: "Gay marriage would ruin the specialness of marriage" Gays: "Fine, whatever, don't call it marriage. In the mean time, we have a loving, monomogous relationship, and your laws are costing us a lot of money that we wouldn't have to otherwise pay if we were like you". Conservative Preacher: "Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman." Gays: "Dude. Don't call it marriage if it makes you feel better. Whatever. But, whatever the civil, protected by US law equivilancy is, we'd like to have that". Conservative Preacher: "Same sexed couples cannot have children on their own, therefore they should not have be entitled to the protections of marriage." Gays: "How does the ability of two people to have children relate to their home loan interest rate? To their need to pay more taxes? To their need for more expensive health insurance (no children should mean less expensive health insurance)?"
Whatever. Every arguement I've heard against gay marriage goes back to the definition of marriage, which is defined in an anti-gay religious sense. However, somehow this has been extended to the law, and it's just stupid. There are 2 parts to a union-between-two-people. One is the part that the church, god, and your parents will recognize. The other is the one that the IRS, blue cross/blue shield, and Century21 will recognize. All that most gay people want is the 2nd part, and they're even willing to not call it marriage, opting for calling it what it really is, a "civil" (or having to do with the law) "union" (partnership of two people).
What I want to know is why Cable and DSL are always set up like: download/upload (x*4)/x
i.e. 3000/256. As I work for a webhosting company, I know that bandwidth can only be bought symetrically (you can't buy an incomming DS3 with an outboung T-1). So, why do they cap your upload speeds so low?
Alternatively, I'd love to partner with an ISP. They seem to have all the outbound bandwidth in the world, and I have plenty of inbound to spare!
I remember reading somewhere that the built-in CD burning capabilities of Windows XP is licensed from Roxio,
Yeah, that's where this might actually be used. I was about to say that I had never used DirectCD either, but I actually have. In windows XP, when you're exploring the contents of your hard drive, you can "right click" a file, and go to "Send To -> CD Drive". Then, you just open my computer and click on the "write waiting files to CD", and it will burn a CD for you. When it's done, it says CD burning technology licenced from Roxio, Inc.
So, this could indeed bite microsoft in the ass. And I've actually come to like that feature in winXP - it's great for the lazy.
Hah! My girlfriend is an avid gamer, but she does just fine with my GeForce2 MX 32MB. Well, then, all she wants to play is neverwinter nights and civ II.
For UPS's, just head onto ebay, and look for like a 5U APC rackmount UPS (1440 or 2200 VA). The batteries are most likely dead, but it has a place for external batteries. Open the thing up, take the internal battery clip and put it where the external battery clip mount is, grab some 10AWG stranded copper and 4 x 12v sealed lead acid batteries, and hook yourself up.
For around $300 ($100 for ups, $150 ish for batteries), you'll have a UPS with brand new batteries that will give you probably 80 amp-hours, rather than the rated 20-25 amp-hours that the unit was designed for. Hook several computers up - it will probably take 6 or 7 before you are up to overload area.
Keep in mind - they have 20Amp plugs - so you'll want to get a 20 amp circut, or a multimeter and make sure you don't pull more than 12 amps off of it at full computer load, cause it will pull ~2 more during charging (i.e. after power comes back on), and you don't want it over 15 (unless you went throught the trouble of wiring a 20 amp breaker)
Their opposition to human cloning, including for stem cell research, has the same origin as their opposition to abortion: they consider eggs and embryos as living, human beings.
I'm an expectant father (baby due in june). My fiancee has a degree in Animal Science, with focus on genetics, reproductive physology, and other stuff I don't understand.
One thing she told me, though, is this: until about 12-14 weeks pregnant (i.e. LONG after the stem cell phase), a human embryo is indistinguishable from any other mammal. They have tails and eyespots and 4 equal length appendages.
At 8 weeks pregnant, a human embryo is indistinguishable from any other *vertebrate*. At that stage of development, whether you're a fish, an iguana, a dog, or a human, they all look identical. Like a little peanut.
If you have seen the pictures of the little embryo's feet at 8 weeks (i.e. here), this is incorrect. It is a hoax, or something brewed up by the pro-life people. Yet, this picture appears every where on the internet. When my fiancee was trying to find pictures of fetal development a few weeks ago to show me what an 8 week old fetus looked like, ALL we could find on the internet was that stupid feet picture.
Now, I'm not pro-abortion.
But, A.) to consider, as you say, "eggs" as living human beings is simply scientifically wrong. I don't know if you believe this, or if you were just stating Bush's beliefs, but an EGG is not alive, any more than any of your other cells is alive. If it were a living human, then all women would be guilty of homicide by virtue of the fact that, every month, they release *at least* one egg. Even allowing for a couple of pregnancies, and at a bare minimum of one egg a month, age 15-50, that's over 400 murders in a lifetime. Thank god they're not telling me sperm are each human beings, or, even only having sex once in your life, resulting in pregnancy, you would have killed *millions*. Most normal guys are probably up into the trillions range. Now that's genocide.
B.) Embryos are living. That is true. But, in another sense, they aren't (at least at stem cell age) human beings. At stem cell age, they are identical to all other animalia on the planet. Yet, we have no problem killing flies, or deer, or ducks, or meal worms, or fish, or... etc. Not to mention that lots of pregnancies "occur" in the fertalization sense, and don't ever attach to a uterine wall.
So, for my part, I think stem cell research definately outweighs the benefits of just "throwing them away". I'd like a cure for cancer by the time I get it.
A.) Doesn't need a lot of bandwidth. B.) EVERY modern routing software package (later than 1997) can filter out SYN attacks, not to mention most webserver software can, too, including IIS.
So, it's not eating up their bandwidth (as millions of slashdot readers chime in and say "you can do that with a 28.8") and it's not something that should be affecting their network.
Having previously worked at a best buy, I can tell you with ABSOLUTE certainty that the quality of the computer would NOT have stopped eMachines from advertising it.
Rather, I'd imagine that their stock is limited to 10,000 units or so, and so they don't want everyone in the world getting pissed off at them for not having it in stock, and best buy issuing 40,000 rain checks.
Trust me on this one. In fact, I'm fairly confident that 10,000 is probably a pretty close number. Say, they keep 2000 for sales via their website and sell best buy 8000. Divide by 450 best buy stores... ~18 computers per best buy. If that's all they can get, they don't want to advertise it, as 18 comptuers at best buy will be sold in an hour, now that we're down to the crunch.
During the last few days before christmas, usually we ended up turning the pricetags around for computers that aren't in stock, so as we don't waste our time selling and customers don't waste their time buying. Usually, by christmas eve day, all but 2 or 3 cards are backwards, and the ones that arent are the relatively expensive ones. And even those get snatched up as people come in looking for gifts and what not.
All the more reason to buy out in the country where the real estate game is played less, I suppose. And all the more reason not to borrow against the increased value of your house.
Thanks. Words of wisdom. Good grief, this is hard. Especially in a market where you have to decide in 20 minutes or so if you want to buy a house (houses go on sale 9am and sell by noon).
This system will only increase the number of open relays out there.
Plus, for some of the more nazi-esque spam block lists, it can cause MAJOR havoc for your network. I can tell you that this will not be implemented on our network. We've delt with this already... One computer on our network had an open relay for a couple of days, and it caused *.rr.com (road runner cable, HUGE ISP on the right coast) to block ALL MAIL from our/24. It was horrible, we have hundreds of customers who could not get email from us or their clients.
And it was pulling teeth to get us off of that block list. Send email, get response "contact your ISP", sent email explaining we were the ISP, got email "contact your ISP", sent email madly declaring that we can fix it if they'd tell us what was wrong, but with more than 100 computers in that IP range, it was kind of hard to tell who was in trouble, got email "contact your ISP"... etc.
I'm NOT going to put anything on the network that deliberately sends spam, or even looks like an open relay. My business is too important to me.
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ok, i'll agree to that.
I just hate being an end user and being taken for granted, or assumed to be stupid (university professors do this, too).
~Will
From the DOSBox faq:
Game X doesn't Run?
Shit happens, wait for another version.
Wow. Although, that's fairly typical of a lot of sourceforge projects. But, come on, guys? A little politeness goes a long way.
Q: How does the judge define pornography?
A: Whatever gives him a hard-on.
~Will
1.) we're getting married. 2.) we love each other 3.) it's society that says having a child out of wedlock is bad, not my morals.
My morals are sound. I know where I stand, I stand beside my fiancee all the way. I would have preferred we'd been married before she got pregnant, but honestly, I'm thrilled to death now anyway.
I have no moral qualms. All of my morals agree with each other, it's people like my parent poster's comments that make me think "this is one of those people who claim to love everyone and yet despise anyone who doesn't fit into his worldview".
Thank you, sir, for having something insightful and well thought out to say. I appreciate your comment, and am putting you on my "friends" list, unlike the parent poster, who is already on my "foe" list (see other comment in this thread).
I appreciate your words.
~Will
Stupidity can spread like a plague. Unwed highschool-age mothers are flagrantly displaying their stupidity. I wouldn't want a teenage crack addict spending time with my kids either.
... somewhe
SCORE: +3 STUPID +2 IGNORANT.
If you smoke crack, whether you're in highschool or not, it's a bad thing. I'm not saying getting pregnant in high school is good, but I am saying that I wouldn't mind my (hypothetical) 6 year old daughter hanging around a 28 year old responsible pregnant woman. Your logic is aweful.
People get pregnant. It happens. Pregnacny is a beautiful thing. My fiancee and I have a kid on the way (she's 4ish months pregnant). We're both 22, and it seems to be the thing to think that 22 is young to be having a kid. But, we love each other, and we love the kid (already, even before birth).
But, to compare this to crack is... just irresponsible at best, and damaging at worst. Pregnancy is a wonderful thing that has it's place and time. Crack has neither: it destroys lives and relationships. To be facing the pregnancy question a little early, and compare it to crack... are you suggesting that there's a proper time in one's life to smoke crack? That you'd let your kids hang out with crack addicts, as long as they're 30 and married? The longer I type, the less of a point I see in your arguement, and the more pissed off at you I am.
Telling your kids that pregnant people in high school are bad, and you shouldn't hang around them, is a terrible thing to do. Often, girls in this situation need love, appreciation, and support. To cut them off because they're diseased is just wrong on every human level I know of.
It's not possible. You can't marry someone of the same gender anymore than you can murder a dead man. The meaning of the word prevents it from happening.
From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.:
MARRIAGE - NOUN: 1a. The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife. b. The state of being married; wedlock. c. A common-law marriage. d. A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.
Look, the arguement is "marriage is blah, special, a sacrement, this, that, the other thing". Fine. Whatever. Call that marriage, and call equal protection for couples under the law "civil union".
The arguement stands like thus:
Conservative Preacher: "Gay marriage would ruin the specialness of marriage"
Gays: "Fine, whatever, don't call it marriage. In the mean time, we have a loving, monomogous relationship, and your laws are costing us a lot of money that we wouldn't have to otherwise pay if we were like you".
Conservative Preacher: "Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman."
Gays: "Dude. Don't call it marriage if it makes you feel better. Whatever. But, whatever the civil, protected by US law equivilancy is, we'd like to have that".
Conservative Preacher: "Same sexed couples cannot have children on their own, therefore they should not have be entitled to the protections of marriage."
Gays: "How does the ability of two people to have children relate to their home loan interest rate? To their need to pay more taxes? To their need for more expensive health insurance (no children should mean less expensive health insurance)?"
Whatever. Every arguement I've heard against gay marriage goes back to the definition of marriage, which is defined in an anti-gay religious sense. However, somehow this has been extended to the law, and it's just stupid. There are 2 parts to a union-between-two-people. One is the part that the church, god, and your parents will recognize. The other is the one that the IRS, blue cross/blue shield, and Century21 will recognize. All that most gay people want is the 2nd part, and they're even willing to not call it marriage, opting for calling it what it really is, a "civil" (or having to do with the law) "union" (partnership of two people).
Maximum PC, Dec2003 issue, has a showdown of the Athlon64 F-51 vs. Intel P4ExtremeEdition vs. Mac dual G5 2.0ghz.
Basically, they came up with the conclusion that the P4EE, though it's very hard to find one, is a bit faster in the majority, the Athlon64 takes up almost all the rest of the field, and the Mac G5 comes in first in one or two areas. They also concluded that 1.) the mac is a good deal for a fast computer, 2.) the intel chip looks more like vaporware than anything else, as you can actually get AMD's and PPC's, and 3.) the difference in speed b/t the athlon64 and the P4EE is negligible.
~Will
Statistically, they're doing alright.
What?!?
A 1 in 50 chance of dying is ok?
Would you get on a Jumbo Jet w/ 300 seats if you were pretty sure 6 people on the plane were going to die?
Cause that's the fatality rate right now for shuttle missions: 100 missions, 2 failures. 1/50.
~Will
Why on earth are you still running SCO, BTW? Do the machines carry some weird SW that is not found in Linux?
I have a friend (who reads slashdot, and thus may read the same comment and repost), but the computer store where he works builds custom computers for the public, businesses, gub'ment, and they do small scale ISP and repair stuff.
The CTO of the company is just in love with microsoft. Voluntarily spends thousands of dollars and hours configuring just so they can run IIS and exchange, etc. It's gotten to the point where my friend has convinced the CTO that Linux is better, and the CTO still doesn't care because he's unwilling to learn it.
The ONE thing they have non-MS is their transaction server, which is running MMS software on SCO-UNIX, and has been for a coon's age. For the longest time, the MMS people didn't support anything else. Now they support redhat 7.2, i think, and they're considering switching to that because they want to upgrade the machine (why, I don't know, as it's essentially telnet).
There are people using mission critical software under SCO.
~Will
As posted elsewhere in this thread, I know what java is and I know what javascript is. I see al lthe time banner ads and popups that load teh little "sun cup and steam" thing before trying to sell me crap.
I know java is not javascript. I am just sick of seeing little popups and crap on webpages that use Java (real java). I.e. I watched the freakin sun little "cup and steam" and a grey space load before I get something that looks like a casino or something".
Such that I uninstalled Java.
I don't know why everybody wants to keep distance from Java.
Dude, because it's Java. Seriously, for word association, the first 2 things that come to mind are "bloated" and "unnecessary".
What's java's place in the world now? As far as I first understood it, Java was designed to allow for complete application portability, to any platform, etc. That was why it was so freaking bloated and ugly. As time has gone on, we've seen that, even though java continues to be bloated, it's not the least bit portable. It all depends on what you have that interprets or runs or whatever your java. All the programs are different, and nothing looks the same, feels the same, runs the same across platforms. Everyone has to put specific code in their java apps so that they will run on every platform. And still, where it the most common usage of java? Stupid web crap in banner ads and pop ups.
Fuck Java. I put java in the same category as Pascal - a language which never accomplished it's intended task, but that, despite it's horridness, has continued to exist.
~Wx
Marriage is not a right, it is, at best, a tradition or custom. Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman.
...response...
...response...
Customs and traditions change as society changes. Why should this one be different than any others?
An even better arguement is: If it's a tradition or custom, why does it guarantee special protections under the law? Why do married couples pay less taxes than unmarried couples? Why is it that married couples can get joint health insurance that's significantly cheaper than 2 separate policies? Why can married couples qualify for lower interest rates on house loans.
If it's tradition, let's leave the corporations and government out of it, and make it the sole realm of the churches.
Marriage is 'special'. Places that have allowed same sexed marriages have seen increased divorce and infidelity. Same sexed marriage takes away the 'specialness' of marriage.
Gay sex and marriage are immoral, as are divorce and infidelity. It's no surprise that a place which has one type of immorality has another. So there may be general society problems causing both, it may not be gay marriage itself destroying values.
Gay sex is immoral? How is it any more immoral than straight couples doing it in the butt? Huh? If marriage creates morality out of immorality (ok sex where there was immoral pre-marital sex), then why deny this to gays?
Look, the arguement is "marriage is blah, special, a sacrement, this, that, the other thing". Fine. Whatever. Call that marriage, and call equal protection for couples under the law "civil union".
The arguement stands like thus:
Conservative Preacher: "Gay marriage would ruin the specialness of marriage"
Gays: "Fine, whatever, don't call it marriage. In the mean time, we have a loving, monomogous relationship, and your laws are costing us a lot of money that we wouldn't have to otherwise pay if we were like you".
Conservative Preacher: "Marriage is defined as being between a man and a woman."
Gays: "Dude. Don't call it marriage if it makes you feel better. Whatever. But, whatever the civil, protected by US law equivilancy is, we'd like to have that".
Conservative Preacher: "Same sexed couples cannot have children on their own, therefore they should not have be entitled to the protections of marriage."
Gays: "How does the ability of two people to have children relate to their home loan interest rate? To their need to pay more taxes? To their need for more expensive health insurance (no children should mean less expensive health insurance)?"
Whatever. Every arguement I've heard against gay marriage goes back to the definition of marriage, which is defined in an anti-gay religious sense. However, somehow this has been extended to the law, and it's just stupid. There are 2 parts to a union-between-two-people. One is the part that the church, god, and your parents will recognize. The other is the one that the IRS, blue cross/blue shield, and Century21 will recognize. All that most gay people want is the 2nd part, and they're even willing to not call it marriage, opting for calling it what it really is, a "civil" (or having to do with the law) "union" (partnership of two people).
~Will
What I want to know is why Cable and DSL are always set up like:
download/upload
(x*4)/x
i.e. 3000/256. As I work for a webhosting company, I know that bandwidth can only be bought symetrically (you can't buy an incomming DS3 with an outboung T-1). So, why do they cap your upload speeds so low?
Alternatively, I'd love to partner with an ISP. They seem to have all the outbound bandwidth in the world, and I have plenty of inbound to spare!
~Wx
I remember reading somewhere that the built-in CD burning capabilities of Windows XP is licensed from Roxio,
Yeah, that's where this might actually be used. I was about to say that I had never used DirectCD either, but I actually have. In windows XP, when you're exploring the contents of your hard drive, you can "right click" a file, and go to "Send To -> CD Drive". Then, you just open my computer and click on the "write waiting files to CD", and it will burn a CD for you. When it's done, it says CD burning technology licenced from Roxio, Inc.
So, this could indeed bite microsoft in the ass. And I've actually come to like that feature in winXP - it's great for the lazy.
~Will
I disagree. I'm freaking in heaven, clicking on all these links loooking at all these amazing free or marginally cheap games!
Hah! My girlfriend is an avid gamer, but she does just fine with my GeForce2 MX 32MB. Well, then, all she wants to play is neverwinter nights and civ II.
True. Although, one time, I ran into a guy who wouldn't take out the batteries and toss 'em, because I think he was skimming off the top.
~Will
For UPS's, just head onto ebay, and look for like a 5U APC rackmount UPS (1440 or 2200 VA). The batteries are most likely dead, but it has a place for external batteries. Open the thing up, take the internal battery clip and put it where the external battery clip mount is, grab some 10AWG stranded copper and 4 x 12v sealed lead acid batteries, and hook yourself up.
For around $300 ($100 for ups, $150 ish for batteries), you'll have a UPS with brand new batteries that will give you probably 80 amp-hours, rather than the rated 20-25 amp-hours that the unit was designed for. Hook several computers up - it will probably take 6 or 7 before you are up to overload area.
Keep in mind - they have 20Amp plugs - so you'll want to get a 20 amp circut, or a multimeter and make sure you don't pull more than 12 amps off of it at full computer load, cause it will pull ~2 more during charging (i.e. after power comes back on), and you don't want it over 15 (unless you went throught the trouble of wiring a 20 amp breaker)
~Will
Not which projet, which members of each project.
I will not be donating any of my money to occult activities. All this talk of witches and daemons... you should be ashamed!
Their opposition to human cloning, including for stem cell research, has the same origin as their opposition to abortion: they consider eggs and embryos as living, human beings.
... etc. Not to mention that lots of pregnancies "occur" in the fertalization sense, and don't ever attach to a uterine wall.
I'm an expectant father (baby due in june). My fiancee has a degree in Animal Science, with focus on genetics, reproductive physology, and other stuff I don't understand.
One thing she told me, though, is this: until about 12-14 weeks pregnant (i.e. LONG after the stem cell phase), a human embryo is indistinguishable from any other mammal. They have tails and eyespots and 4 equal length appendages.
At 8 weeks pregnant, a human embryo is indistinguishable from any other *vertebrate*. At that stage of development, whether you're a fish, an iguana, a dog, or a human, they all look identical. Like a little peanut.
If you have seen the pictures of the little embryo's feet at 8 weeks (i.e. here), this is incorrect. It is a hoax, or something brewed up by the pro-life people. Yet, this picture appears every where on the internet. When my fiancee was trying to find pictures of fetal development a few weeks ago to show me what an 8 week old fetus looked like, ALL we could find on the internet was that stupid feet picture.
Now, I'm not pro-abortion.
But, A.) to consider, as you say, "eggs" as living human beings is simply scientifically wrong. I don't know if you believe this, or if you were just stating Bush's beliefs, but an EGG is not alive, any more than any of your other cells is alive. If it were a living human, then all women would be guilty of homicide by virtue of the fact that, every month, they release *at least* one egg. Even allowing for a couple of pregnancies, and at a bare minimum of one egg a month, age 15-50, that's over 400 murders in a lifetime. Thank god they're not telling me sperm are each human beings, or, even only having sex once in your life, resulting in pregnancy, you would have killed *millions*. Most normal guys are probably up into the trillions range. Now that's genocide.
B.) Embryos are living. That is true. But, in another sense, they aren't (at least at stem cell age) human beings. At stem cell age, they are identical to all other animalia on the planet. Yet, we have no problem killing flies, or deer, or ducks, or meal worms, or fish, or
So, for my part, I think stem cell research definately outweighs the benefits of just "throwing them away". I'd like a cure for cancer by the time I get it.
~Will
Yeah, but the point is:
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A.) Doesn't need a lot of bandwidth.
B.) EVERY modern routing software package (later than 1997) can filter out SYN attacks, not to mention most webserver software can, too, including IIS.
So, it's not eating up their bandwidth (as millions of slashdot readers chime in and say "you can do that with a 28.8") and it's not something that should be affecting their network.
So what is it?
bad ram, probably.
Having previously worked at a best buy, I can tell you with ABSOLUTE certainty that the quality of the computer would NOT have stopped eMachines from advertising it.
Rather, I'd imagine that their stock is limited to 10,000 units or so, and so they don't want everyone in the world getting pissed off at them for not having it in stock, and best buy issuing 40,000 rain checks.
Trust me on this one. In fact, I'm fairly confident that 10,000 is probably a pretty close number. Say, they keep 2000 for sales via their website and sell best buy 8000. Divide by 450 best buy stores... ~18 computers per best buy. If that's all they can get, they don't want to advertise it, as 18 comptuers at best buy will be sold in an hour, now that we're down to the crunch.
During the last few days before christmas, usually we ended up turning the pricetags around for computers that aren't in stock, so as we don't waste our time selling and customers don't waste their time buying. Usually, by christmas eve day, all but 2 or 3 cards are backwards, and the ones that arent are the relatively expensive ones. And even those get snatched up as people come in looking for gifts and what not.
Yeah. Low stock.
~Will
Ouch.
Just... ouch.
All the more reason to buy out in the country where the real estate game is played less, I suppose. And all the more reason not to borrow against the increased value of your house.
Thanks. Words of wisdom. Good grief, this is hard. Especially in a market where you have to decide in 20 minutes or so if you want to buy a house (houses go on sale 9am and sell by noon).
~Will
This system will only increase the number of open relays out there.
/24. It was horrible, we have hundreds of customers who could not get email from us or their clients.
Plus, for some of the more nazi-esque spam block lists, it can cause MAJOR havoc for your network. I can tell you that this will not be implemented on our network. We've delt with this already... One computer on our network had an open relay for a couple of days, and it caused *.rr.com (road runner cable, HUGE ISP on the right coast) to block ALL MAIL from our
And it was pulling teeth to get us off of that block list. Send email, get response "contact your ISP", sent email explaining we were the ISP, got email "contact your ISP", sent email madly declaring that we can fix it if they'd tell us what was wrong, but with more than 100 computers in that IP range, it was kind of hard to tell who was in trouble, got email "contact your ISP"... etc.
I'm NOT going to put anything on the network that deliberately sends spam, or even looks like an open relay. My business is too important to me.
Thanks, but, no thanks.
~Will